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    "id": 1130211,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1130211/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta",
    "speaker_title": "His Excellency the President",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 168,
        "legal_name": "Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta",
        "slug": "uhuru-kenyatta"
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    "content": "In line with this constitutional instruction, my address today will lay emphasis on three elements that I consider important to our country: First is the state of our economic development, which is about our national wellbeing; second is the state of our social structure, which looks at the restoration and propagation of the dignity of our people; and third is the state of our nationhood, which speaks to the soul of our nation, including the state of our democracy. Before I report on these thematic areas, allow me, ladies and gentlemen and Hon. Members, to give a brief account on the state of our national response to emerging disruptions. Specifically, I want to put on record how the power of choice on the part of our Administration, as supported by Parliament and the county governments, turned the COVID-19 pandemic from a national crisis to what I believe is an intergenerational opportunity. Hon. Speakers, when the pandemic hit our country in March, 2020, we were quick to warn the nation that a crisis is twin-fold; partly a danger and partly an opportunity, at the same stroke. I highlighted the inescapable fact that depending on what you focus on in a crisis, you can either emerge triumphant or indecisive out of fear and despair. In other words, the crisis is indeed all about choices. Those who chose danger and fear under the COVID-19 scare do not survive. Those who saw the crisis through the lens of opportunity developed resilience and were able to build back better. For instance, a Kenyan company known as Revital operating in Kilifi County in the Coast Region became Africa‟s largest producer and exporter of vaccine syringes during the COVID period."
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